Rt Hon Ed Miliband

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 24 November 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. He's been in charge of his party for three years and was the youngest leader they'd ever elected. But that fact got somewhat lost in the drama that surrounded his coronation: famously, he stood against his brother, David. To say the younger brother's victory upset the political apple cart would be something of an understatement. Politics is in his pores. His mother was a human rights campaigner, his father a renowned Marxist academic. Both parents came from Jewish families who settled in Britain having only just survived the Nazis. Looking though his CV - clever comprehensive schoolboy, degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, an intern for Tony Benn, Economics lecturer at Harvard, Special Advisor to Gordon Brown - it's clear, for him, there's only ever been one abiding passion. He says, politics "is not something I chose. It's not something I learned from books, even from my Dad's books. It was something I was born into." Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young.
0:02.0	Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Discs from BBC Radio 4.
0:06.6	For rights reasons, the music choices are shorter than in the Radio Broadcast.
0:11.0	For more information about the program, please visit bbc.co.uk-radio4.
0:31.0	My castaway this week is the Labour leader Ed Miliband.
0:37.0	He's been in charge of his party for three years now and was the youngest leader they'd ever elected.
0:42.0	Although that fact got somewhat lost.
0:44.0	In the blizzard of drama that surrounded his coronation famously, he stood against his brother David.
0:49.0	To say the younger brother's victory upset the political apple cart would be something of an understatement.
0:54.0	Politics is in his pores.
0:56.0	His mother was a human rights campaigner, his father, a renowned Marxist academic.
1:01.0	Both parents came from Jewish families who settled in Britain having only just survived the Nazis.
1:07.0	Looking through his CV, clever comprehensive schoolboy, degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford,
1:13.0	an intern for Tony Ben, economics lecturer at Harvard, special adviser to Gordon Brown,
1:18.0	it's clear for him there's only ever been one abiding passion.
1:23.0	He says politics is not something I choose.
1:26.0	It's not something I learn from books, even from my dad's books.
1:29.0	It was something I was born into.
1:32.0	And I think it's fair to say Ed Miliband that being leader of the opposition might be the hardest job in politics.
1:37.0	What do you think the most difficult aspect of it is?
1:40.0	I first of all, I think there are many, many harder jobs in life.
1:44.0	I think it's a privilege to be doing this job.
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